13 Essential Cottage Garden Plants (Z: 8 – 11)

We showed you all the fun ways to design your own cottage garden. Now it’s time to fill it with fun, useful, fragrant, flowery, cool plants! Here are thirteen we highly recommend that range from shrubs for structure to edibles for…well, for eating out of hand. Enjoy.

We don’t get much attention in “Full Sun Phoenix”. Thank you for these lovely zone 9 plants. I am so glad to have found you. I am originally from Ohio where everything grows!! Had to become a master gardener in order to have a real tomato. In July/August the sun is deadly & I’m always looking for afternoon shade. Trees & shrubs are great but I would like to figure out how to get shade amongst the plants themselves.